In my various travels in the Sierra Madres, there was one place I had
numerous opportunities to
visit, and each time I failed to make it there, mostly because we chose to
go somewhere else. There
were so many places to see that we had not seen, and so we thought we could
easily visit this place in the
future on a more tourist-like trip. But I still have not been there.
Here is a YouTube video of that place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Yv-08z1h4
If that video did not have the techno-music, but instead had a pleasant
voice in clear proper Spanish
with English subtitles, explaining the history behind the location, it
would be a great video.
I believe Jim McLane told me about this place back around 1990. I would
be that members of GHG
visited this place back in the 1980's. Jim McLane was an expert on this
area. And for those of you
who did not know, Jim secretly had a prosthetic leg, and even people that
hiked there with him were
unware of it.
I have been to Rayones. We had the most awesome steak dinner there in
1999. The chef told me he had
slaughtered the cow earlier in the day. There is something pleasant
about eating in a rustic family-owned
restaurant in a scenic mountain valley watching the sun go down, and the
old man playing some
unique instrument, and singing some song like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1qR7hTpDfQ
But more likely something more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIpTJR8hkw
( please skip intro to 0:46 seconds )
I can find something barely similar in Houston, but it is not the same
unique experience.
Also, sometime around 1995, I drove a few miles south into Huasteca Canyon
from Monterrey
( Santa Catarina area ). I have never done any serious hiking or any
caving in Huasteca Canyon -
just some light ridge-walking, and taking photos. I had planned on
becoming more familiar with
that area. Now you can do it virtually on Google Earth, or just watch
ATV videos on YouTube.
David Locklear
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